Chances are if you work in the healthcare industry, you’ve heard about the Medicare star ratings. If you haven’t, it’s not too late. Every year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) collects data from Medicare Advantage (MA) plans. Each different quality and…

From our previous posts, you may remember that the star rating system is quite similar to how we calculated our GPAs (the average of your letter grades). For example, you may have gotten A’s for math courses, but B’s for liberal arts courses…

If you carefully read the technical notes of 2015 star rating, you will discover that the readmission rates are not the observed hospital readmission rates. The equation in Attachment F shows how the final rate is calculated.